Silk and other fabrics



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M. DE GOMBERTQ- MAGHINE FOR DRESSING SILK AND OTHER PABRIG'S. No.269,188.

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MAGHINB FOR DRESSING SILK AND OTHER FABRICS. No. 69.188. Patented 1m.19, 1882.

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UNITED STATES ATENT Prion.

MAXIME GOMBERT, OF PARIS, FRANCE, ASSLGNOR TO THE OOMPAGNIE GENERALE DETEINTURERIE ET APPRETS, (SYSTEME, ANDRE LYON,)

OF SAM E PLACE.

MACHINE FOR DRESSING SILK ANDOTHER FABRICS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 269,188, datedDecember19, 1882,-

Application filed May 26, 1882.

1' all whom it may concern,-

Be it known that I, MAXIME DE GoMBER'r, of Paris, France, have inventedan Improved Machine for Dressing Silk and other Fabrics;

and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings,making a part of the same.

This invention relates to machines for dressing or stiffening silk orother fabrics.

The invention consists of a trough of copper or other suitable materialto contain the size or other liquid with which the fabric is to bedressed, in combination with a frame and I5 with a rotating winder,arranged and operated as hereinafterdescribed.

The invention is illustrated, by way of example,in theaccompanyingdrawings, in which Figure 1 represents a sectional sideelevation of my improved machine; Fig. 2, a sectional end View, and.Fig. 3 a plan, of the said machine. Fig. 4 shows part of the trough andone loose roller in seotion,to illustrate how the fabric is placed whenbeing passed a first time through the machine. Fig. 5 is a crosssectionthrough the rollers of the Windin g mechanism to show the method ofengaging the fabric on the winding device; and Fig. 6 is a sectionthrough the same rollers to illus- 0 trate their position when thefabric is to be removed from the winder.

The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all thefigures.

a is a trough or trough-like vessel, made of 5 metal or other substance,and supported on a 5 outside of their hearings in the supporting framehave placed upon them wheels It; 7:, which gear with similar wheels(also marked it k) on (No model.)

| a shaft, 1, that carries a crank-handle, i, all as clearly shown inthe drawings. The following is the operation of the machine: The fabricis first placed in folds at the rear end of trough a, as in Fig. 4,below the roller b,- thenoe it passes over the loose roller 1) andaround the series of rollers c, which guide it in its passage throughthe trough. On leaving these rollersthe fabric is led upward to therollers-(Z d, which rollers are carried by the arms 0 e. The fabric ispassed around the upper rollers 61, and its end h brought down so as tobe nipped against 1 is now revolved the length of fabric is drawnthrough the dressing in the trough, beingheld in the size by the rollersc c, and wound around the rollers 61 d. The fabric can then betransferred to another machine to undergo a similar treatment; or it maybe passed a second however, the fabric is not placed in the sameposition in the trough as before, for in this case the two rollers 61are first brought into a horizontal plane, as in Figs. 2 and 3, and thecaps fof arms e are raised by releasing the locking-screws g to allow ofthe rollers: 61 d being lifted out with the fabric wound thereon. Therollers are then held in the position Fig. 6 by an attendant, and theroller 11 is passed through the rollof fabric, and afterward, with thefabric thereon, dropped into its bearings. The two rollers d d are thenreplaced in their bearings. The free end of the fabric is then nipped bysaid rollers 61 as before, and the operation repeated. The fabric whenit leaves the rollers is in form of a flattened tube, and may then beput in a wrapper for conveyance to the drying-machine. a

t The form and arrangement of the various parts of the machine may bevaried without departing from the invention.

While the machine is in operation the fabric will be held stretched bythe revolving rollers d d and rollers c and b, so as tolbe thoroughlyexposed at all its parts to contact with the contents of the vessel to.The result will thelower roller d, asin Fig. 5. When the shaft timethrough thesamemachine, in which case, l

be a fabric sized more thoroughly than when stantially as described, forrevolving the arms exposed in folds orslack to the contents of the e, asset forth.

i' MAXIME DE GOMBER'I'. 5 The combination of the trough a with theWitnesses:

rollers b and c and with the rollers d, arms 0, ROBT.-M. HOOPER,

having trunnions, and with mechanism, snb- JEAN BAPTISTE ROLLAND.

